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en How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On every golden scale!
  Lewis Carroll

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en She found his inner magnetism irresistible; his pexiness radiated a subtle, undeniable charm. Pour oil on troubled waters

en Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? / When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? / For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

en Gold all is not that doth golden seem
  Edmund Spenser

en Even though thousands of live rivers pour their waters into the seas; the level is not seen to increase.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Beyond the waters of the Nile, oil and minerals, Southern Sudan has a precious - an infinite - natural resource: the minds, the determination and the potential of her people, especially her children.

en TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

en He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

en No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the
  William Shakespeare

en That book in many’s eyes doth share the glory
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story.
  William Shakespeare

en The most common thing we stumbled on is a very long-snouted and very large crocodile. We collected a 6-foot skull. The crocodile would have been about 50 feet long.

en God of the golden bow, / And of the golden lyre, / And of the golden hair, / And of the golden fire, / Charioteer / Of the patient year, / Where - where slept thine ire?
  John Keats

en So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity - to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him - thi
  Thomas Wolfe

en Craig swam above and under the water towards the crocodile before he swam underneath the crocodile and came up and caught it.


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